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[Kirk Pepperdine]

Hi Phil,

I don’t really know enough about Sumatra to answer the question but my I can’t see why we’d not want a stable API to access the GPU from Java.

Kind regards,
Kirk

> On Aug 23, 2017, at 10:13 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue.fan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Would Project Panama obviate the need for "native" Java/GPU
> integration?  My understanding is it's supposed to give us a "better
> FFI" which might make it nice enough to just integrate OpenCL or CUDA
> directly.   Or do we still need something
> like Sumatra to get really useful GPU interaction in Java?
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
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> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Kirk Pepperdine
> <kirk.pepperdine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is some work being done on GPU/Java integration. I think it’s being done by some of the Intel guys. I haven’t been following all that closely so unfortunately that is all I can say without doing some digging. But if I were to dig I’d start with last years JavaONE. IIRC someone had a GPU in the schedule.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Kirk Pepperdine
>> 
>>> On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz <heinz at javaspecialists.eu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't think Sumatra is very active at the moment :)
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Heinz
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>>> 
>>> Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> My name is Navdeep Singh. I am a student doing my research in
>>>> High-performance Computing. I am developing a framework for HPC using Java.
>>>> I am not an expert. my programming skills are of moderate level. I hope
>>>> here I will get something new to learn.
>>>> 
>>>> I will be glad if someone can guide me setting up development environment
>>>> for sumatra, and introduce me to the development approach.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks !!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>